Mommy when will I get marriedAhmet Kavas

4-11.8.2017

The project,“Mommy when will I get married” is the reflection of a true story which I got stuck. It consists of 4 scenes which were completed both in Weimar/Germany where I am living and in Denizli/Turkey where I come from and is the place of my family bonds. I am faced with the question: “when will you get married?” asked by my family. At least, I was thinking for myself to be able to give an answer to the question, when I took my relationship into account with my partner. The work started with the questions that I asked myself and of which I didn’t find an answer. The work is dealing with the notion of family, identity and home. Family is a part of home for me. A home can be more difficult to re-define by members who have different sexual identities. As a result of the question "When will you get married?" is asked constantly, I am showing my conflict with my mother, a phone interview with my grandmother, my cultural background and my own story of being able to have a family in this video.

​​Ahmet Kavas (b.1989 Denizli/Turkey) graduated from Department of Fine Arts Education at Muğla University/Turkey in 2010. He received his master degree from Painting Department in Faculty of Fine Arts at Hacettepe University in 2014 Kavas’s practice ranges from temporary installation to performance, photo, video, drawing-painting and object. His artworks generally take a critical view of social, political and cultural issues. He focuses on the population that is part of minority. He is currently MFA candidate at Public Art and New Artistic Strategies at Bauhaus University. He lives and works in Weimar, Germany.